NE10 Releases: Men | Women

MANSFIELD, Mass. – The New Haven track and field programs have been honored with three weekly awards from the Northeast-10 Conference, the league announced on Tuesday. Freshman thrower Liam Andersen (Long Beach Island, N.J./Manahawkin, N.J.) has been recognized as the NE10 Field Rookie of the Week, junior Kevin Leach-Brown () is the Men's Track Rookie of the Week, and the women's 4x200 meter relay team of Maritza Blanchard (Lake Grove, N.Y./Centereach), Aries Burrell (West Hempstead, N.Y./Holy Trinity Diocesan), Mackenzie Evans (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) and Kathleen Amstad (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) was named the conference's Women's Relay Team of the Week.

All the awards follow the Chargers' performances on Friday at the Lyons Invitational at Wheaton College.

Andersen won the weight throw (14.66m) and took fourth overall in the shot put (12.49m) at the Lyons Invitational. His winning throw of 14.66 meters in the weight throw was a new personal-record and currently sits fourth in the NE10 this season, the highest rank among NE10 rookies.

Leach-Brown hit a NEICAAA qualifying mark with his victory in the 500 meters on Friday. His winning time of 1:06.27 was also a PR and placed him first out of 22 runners, helping New Haven sweep the top two places in the event. He was also a member of the Chargers 4x200m relay team that finished second.

New Haven's women's 4x200m relay team of Blanchard, Burrell, Evans and Amstad finished first out of 10 teams to take the gold at Friday's Lyons Invitational, combining on a final time of 1:45.90.

The Charger men also had two athletes land on this week's honor roll in sophomore Jackson Marescot (Spring Valley, N.Y./Ramapo), who won both the triple jump (13.28m) and long jump (6.28m) at the Lyons Invitational. Senior Michael Reddy (Forest Hills, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) took home first place out of 12 runners in the mile in 4:25.74, which currently ranks 11th in the NE10 this season.

On the women's side, grad student Kathleen Amstad (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) and sophomore Diana Zamudio (Huacho, Peru/Instituto Particular Abdon Calderon (Ecuador)) were also named to the weekly honor roll. Amstad took first place in the 60-meter dash, eclipsing the NEICAAA qualifying mark, and Zamudio set a new personal-record by winning her first collegiate event by clearing 1.56 meters in the high jump, which ranks fourth in the NE10 this season.

The Chargers will return to action this Friday at the two-day John Thomas Terrier Classic at Boston University.